...got her moving tonight. Maybe cutting and logo's tomorrow. Under the gun to get this one cutting.
I have a few wiring challenges to address - like routing the contact for the spindle enable, but should be able to sort it all out tomorrow.
Wish me luck....the machine is in a shop where the heat hit 102 F today. Whew hot.

. . . . and take a cooler box with some cold drinks (non-alcoh.). A desk fan standing on the table will also help you to think straight.

(Our weather is as dismal as it gets around here in winters: Storm winds, lashing rain and temps down to 10 C. Had a laugh from this news story - the weather forecaster doesn't know what a spring tide is!)

Gerald,
Thanks for the congratulations and changing my comment line!
I'm starting to feel like a MM factory. Interesting for me, each build has been different and rewarding.
#5 - standard build with a router
#12 - standard build with fancy prefab rails and router
#28 - standard build with spindle.

Heath,
That was a much later (about 12 months) add on for a specific project.
The #5 machine was with pre-mamba parts too. I had to make all my own cable chain attachments, skate grinder and proximity circuit! How things have changed in two short years.

Heck, soon I will have enough machines under my belt to rival Gerald's Sean!

I have not responded to you comment about my supplying MechMate Blue Screen for Mach3. I don't want you to think I have forgotten you.

I would be happy to supply Blue Screen for every one, if I had a Blue Screen for my self. Sean just made a misquote. If you look at my build again, you will see that I do have a Macro for my Zero Z Touch Plate and for my Red Laser but I am not using a Blue Screen or Mach3 screen to utilize those features. I am using my Shuttle Pro for that. I didn't want to be attached to my computer to run these routines.

I did provide a copy of my Zero Touch Plate Macro to Sean but he has already modified it and I might change mine to work like his. He is using a button on the Y Car to activate the Zero Touch Plate Macro.

If you want to modify you Mach Screen, the best person that has made these changes is Greg Greolt. He has designed a screen for Mach and I think it is blue. I don't have the links but he has answered lots of questions on how to do it on CNCZone and the links are listed here but I couldn't find them.

I know I have listed the links in the past.

If you want a copy of my Macro let me know.

Back to Sean's excellent #28 build. (Sorry to take control of your thread Sean.)

So, I was cleaning up the server files this morning and came across a few pictures from when I converted MM #5 over to a VERY large foam statue cutting machine.
This picture is a 2 sided cutting test of the statue. File created in Rhino from Active laser scans, then imported to CUT 3d for tool path. NOTE: in the top of the picture you can see the 1/2" (very expensive) tool bit hanging down from the bottom of the z-axis spindle.